Border Lampedusa
Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land
Published on 19. October 2017
IX, 190 pages
978-3-319-59330-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book analyses the European border at Lampedusa as a metaphor for visible and invisible powers that impinge on relations between Europe and Africa/Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (political, social, cultural, economic and artistic), it explores the island as a place where social relations based around race, gender, sex, age and class are being reproduced and/or subverted. The authors argue that Lampedusa should be understood as a synecdoche for European borders and boundaries. Widening the classical definition of the term 'border', the authors examine the different meanings assigned to the term by migrants, the local population, seafarers and associative actors based on their subjective and embodied experiences. They reveal how migration policies, international relations with African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries, and the perpetuation of new forms of colonization and imperialism entail heavy consequences for the European Union. This work will appeal to a widereadership, from scholars of migration, anthropology and sociology, to students of political science, Italian, African and cultural studies.
Reviews / Votes
"Without ever losing sight of the images of shipwrecks and death so often associated with the island, Boder Lampedusa inter-references a multiplicity of subjective experiences that end up troubling the distinction between the European Self and its Others. Lampedusa thus becomes a sign of the European condition, where the violence of border control cannot erase the powerful presence of other geographies and histories that that continue to challenge it. A must read for anyone interested in migration, borders, and postcolonial criticism." (Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Italy)More details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2018
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
IX, 190 p. 21 illus. in color.
File size
4,48 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-59330-2 (9783319593302)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-59330-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Gabriele Proglio | Laura Odasso
Border Lampedusa
Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land
Book
11/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
Gabriele Proglio is an FCT postdoctoral fellowship recipient at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, and a Research Fellow on the ERC funded 'Bodies Across Borders' project at the European University Institute, Italy.
Laura Odasso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES), Aix-Marseille University, France. She collaborates regularly with the University of Strasbourg, France, the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and civil society organisations in Europe.
Laura Odasso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES), Aix-Marseille University, France. She collaborates regularly with the University of Strasbourg, France, the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and civil society organisations in Europe.
Content
Introduction; Laura Odasso and Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 1: The traces of journeys and migrants' perspectives: the knots of memory and the unraveled plans; Rosita Deluigi.- Chapter 2: "Half devil and half child": an ethnographic perspective on the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa; Gianluca Gatta.- Chapter 3: O Hear Us When We Cry To Thee; Katy Budge.-Chapter 4:The colour(s) of Lampedusa; Gaia Giuliani.- Chapter 5: A Politics of the Body as Body Politics. Re-thinking Europe's Worksites of Democracy; Simona Wright.- Chapter 6: (Un)framing Lampedusa. Regimes of visibility and the politics of affect in Italian media representations; Chiara Giubilaro.- Chapter 7: Connecting Shores: Libya's Colonial Ghost and Europe's Migrant Crisis in colonial and postcolonial cinematic representations; Sandra Ponzanesi.- Chapter 8: Defragmenting visual representations of border Lampedusa: Intersubjectivity and memories from the Horn of Africa; Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 9: Objects, debris and memory of the Mediterranean passage: Porto M in Lampedusa; Federica Mazzara.- Chapter 10: Nossa Senhora de Lampedosa protectress of slaves and refugees: On Mourning, Cultural Resilience and the Oniric Dimension of History; Fabrice Dubosc.
